Xinhua - The Italian government has agreed to provide 5.28 million U.S. dollars for use in rehabilitation work and paddy cultivation work in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), sources with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries said on Sunday.
The aid will be used in implementing three projects on sustainable small-scale fisheries and aquaculture livelihood in coastal mangrove ecosystem, support to special rice production and support to the immediate rehabilitation of farming, coastal fisheries and aquaculture livelihood in the Nargis-affected areas.
A total of over 32,000 poor fishermen in cyclone-hit Ayeyawaddy division will be benefited, the sources said.
Meanwhile, with the support of the Japanese government, the FAO has recently donated 800 more draught cattle and poultry to the cyclone survivors in the division for agricultural re-cultivation.
The cattle were distributed to 400 farmers in Bogalay, Laputta, Mawlamyaing Gyun and Ngaputaw, while other chickens, ducks and pigs were brought to the 2,800 farmless households in the regions, according to earlier local report.
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